Human League's hit was when I was a Senior in College. Parallel Lines was around when I was a freshman.

The timeline doesn't work very well, to bridge from Donna Summer -- who came out with Bad Girls at about the same time as Blondie's Parallel Lines -- to Don't You Want Me. I've danced enthusiastically to all of the songs at various points. I guess List-a-Beefy has to write something, but this one seemed off.

I was a post facto Blondie fan. Styles of music are like baseball teams. You stay loyal and are antagonistic to the other teams that have their hot seasons. Disco, back then, was despised by rock fans. There's now no denying her greatness. Blondie's best music is still fresh and catchy. She really was the best looking singer of my lifetime. I don't know if her voice was a studio effect, but there was nothing dubbed or overlaid about her looks. I even liked the cool disinterest in her face as she danced so clumsily. "I don't have to move rhytmically. Hot girls don't even have to try." I suppose Madonna made more money, but Debbie Harry was the real deal. She never had to sell her sex appeal.

it tickled me no end when my disco friends hated the song because it was too punk and my punk friends hated it because it was a 'sell-out' to disco. if that didn't make it a "bridge", then i don't know what. btw, the credit for donna summer's success goes to georgio moroder (who,later, produced blondie's 'call me')..after he went away, donna quickly faded.